“I have my own thoughts on that too,” M.K. replied. “I’m very obviously gay, and there are always gonna be people in America and everywhere else who will definitely hate me. But I think that in the last two years there have been a lot of things that have really changed that, and have made it a positive thing.”

“Thank goodness,” Harry noted.

“The world is changing, I think,” Jennifer added.

“We think that you could be an ‘American Idol,’ and we’d like you to be in our Top 15 girls,” she continued, with an emotional M.K. holding her head in her hands as she wept upon hearing the news.

(See M.K.‘s first “Idol” audition below at the 8:52 mark)…

Joining M.K. in the Top 30 (so far) are…

The women:

Bria Anai

Andrina Brogden

Jillian Jensen

Jessica Meuse

Emily Piriz

Kristen O’Connor

Malaya Watson

The men:

Malcolm Allen

Jordan Brisbane

Spencer Lloyd

George Lovett

Alex Preston

Dexter Roberts

Maurice Townsend

Sam Woolf

Emmanuel Zidor

C.J. Harris or Casey Thrasher will also be joining the men, but both hopefuls were left hanging, as they were brought in front of the judges together and the show went to “To Be Continued…” before announcing which of the two would be moving on.

The remaining Top 30 finalists will be revealed Thursday night on Fox.